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The Sinocism China Newsletter For 03.25.13

"Sinocism is the Presidential Daily Brief for China hands"- Evan Osnos, New Yorker Correspondent and National Book Award Winner

Monday is another bad PR day for Apple in China, following on the attacks by CCTV (Danwei) during the March 15 Consumer Day show.

The People’s Daily criticizes the company on page 1 (售后服务双重标准 自我表扬应付质疑 苹果咬了“上帝”一口) about its support policies and public relations response to the uproar caused by the March 15 CCTV report. The newspaperalso has two longer articles on page 9 in which it calls Apple arrogant and runs a cartoon mocking its PR response (人民日报-苹果公司售后服务“双重标准”引发消费者不满，消极应付惹质疑 傲慢苹果“啃”不动？).

If there is a bright side today for Apple, at least there is no word yet that as part of the frugality and anti-corruption campaigns Chinese officials will no longer be allowed to use Apple products.

The cartoon that in the top right bubble has the character for “empty” stamped on “Apple’s Statement”:

Today’s Links:

THE ESSENTIAL EIGHT

The Land of Many Palaces – a documentary feature film by Adam Smith & Song Ting about Ordos— Kickstarterone of the more vocal china bears/funds/research shops who made some decent money pushing the ordos Ghost City story should fund this…// China’s ghost city is awakened by an influx of new residents in “The Land of Many Palaces”…The film is about the allure of urban life in China, set against the backdrop of the new city of Ordos. We are following three characters who represent various facets of the dream of urban life, whether these be governmental, familial, or personal: Xiaomei, a young government official responsible for the relocation of farmers to the new city, and their education about how to become new urban citizens, Shiwen, a herdsman who sells his land to a coal mining company and moves his family to the new city with the compensation money he receives, and Wang, a taxi-driver who arrived in Ordos in search of over night wealth. The city itself, beating with new construction, and an influx of new residents, will serve as a 4th character.

温州炒房客撤离 豪宅每平8万暴跌至4.5万_新闻_腾讯网high end real estate prices collapsing in wenzhou…wenzhou a city in which the bubble has been bursting for a while, world has not ended

Now you can use your phone to ‘call’ the dead – People’s Daily Online At a cemetery in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, you will soon be able to “call up” the deceased using mobile phone technology. There are plans to incorporate a QR (quick response) code on graves in Shengjing cemetery if relatives request the service. By scanning the code using their phones, visitors can find out about the late person’s life, the local Liaoshen Evening News reported.

Chinese people, goods and money pouring into South Africa – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun On March 23, three days before the summit starts, an 18,000-square-meter commercial complex featuring Chinese products opened in Johannesburg. The complex is ringed by dozens of Chinese national flags. Similar gigantic facilities, known as China malls, have mushroomed and proved popular among South Africans. A 48-year-old homemaker said she was looking forward to the opening. She said Chinese products are not always of the highest quality, but are affordable even for the poor.

Peng Liyuan, China’s new first lady, adds glamour – NYTimes.com Concerned about China’s difficulties in projecting a global soft power presence, the government recently established a Public Diplomacy Association made up of former ambassadors and other notable figures. The association’s task is to make the “voice of China and the story of China more engaging and more convincing,” said Yang Jiechi, the new state councilor in charge of foreign affairs. Officials now talk publicly about the need for Chinese companies, especially mining and construction conglomerates, to be more sensitive to local needs in Africa and Asia.

Trade relations in focus before China’s Xi gives Africa speech | Reuters He then travels to South Africa for a summit of leaders of the world’s major emerging economies, known as the BRICS, on Tuesday and Wednesday, and could endorse plans to create a joint foreign exchange reserves pool and an infrastructure. The proposal underscores frustrations among emerging markets at having to rely on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which are seen as reflecting the interests of the United States and other industrialized nations. Nigeria’s central bank governor, Lamido Sanusi, wrote in the Financial Times this month that the trade imbalance between China and Africa was “the essence of colonialism” and cautioned the continent was vulnerable to a new form of imperialism.

Xi’s Visit More Than Symbolic – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Outside observers often look for shortcomings, flaws and crevices in Sino-Russian relations that can develop into serious cracks. Obviously, they want to be reassured that Beijing and Moscow will not join forces against Washington, and they are usually satisfied with the conclusions they draw. Only a blind and bellicose policy by Washington can, in theory, prompt China and Russia to form an anti-US alliance. Today, such a scenario appears highly unlikely. Something else needs to be stressed, however. The stable and flourishing relations between Eurasia’s two biggest neighboring powers, which were engaged in a 30-year-long “cold war” of their own, are a major contribution to international peace and security. President Xi’s visit to Moscow may not necessarily be historic, but it is certainly symbolic of the long way the two countries have come.

China punishes North Korea for nuclear tests | South China Morning Post Freight handlers and trading companies at ports and cities near the North Korean border complain of more rigorous inspections and surprise checks that are raising the costs to doing business with an often unpredictable North Korea. Machinery, luxury goods and daily necessities such as rice and cooking oil are among the targeted products, the companies said, and business is suffering

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

China Construction Bank Quarterly Net Rises 16% on Loans – Bloomberg “The results affirmed our view that the pessimism over Chinese banks’ earnings since last September was overplayed,” said Luo Yi, a Shenzhen-based analyst at China Merchants Securities. “Bad loans may continue to rise this year as China lowers its pace of growth, but the increase will be fairly modest. Margin contraction may also stabilize as banks adjust their asset mix.” Although shares of China’s nine Hong Kong-listed banks have gained 22 percent since mid-September as the U.S. announced a third round of quantitative easing, they continue to trade near record-low valuations.

Economy – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The new Survey, presented in Beijing by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría at a press conference with Mr. Yang Weimin, Vice Minister of the Office of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs of the Chinese Communist Party, forecasts that GDP will grow by 8.5% this year and 8.9% in 2014. “The gradual pick-up in activity provides a strong background for the ambitious reforms China needs to put in place to continue on the road to prosperity,” Mr Gurría said. “We are encouraged by the new leadership’s policy vision and welcome its emphasis on initiatives to make growth not only strong but also inclusive and sustainable over the years ahead.”

China Focus: Economic slowdown puts peaceful rise in focus – Xinhua | English.news.cn The country’s economic expansion is expected to slow to a year-on-year average of 7.2 percent between 2011 and 2025, said Li Xuesong, deputy director of the Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS). At a presentation at the ongoing 5th World Forum on China Studies, Li’s econometric models forecast slower GDP growth than the country’s 13-year low of 7.8 percent in 2012. “Optimistic calculations suggest growth at 8.2 percent, while a pessimistic one suggests 7 percent, between 2011 and 2015, and both figures will continue to decline over the next two five-year periods,” Li said.

China Vice Premier says economy faces headwinds, urges broad reforms —Reuters History has shown that the only way to surmount growth obstacles is to undertake sweeping changes, Zhang said. “This is a very important job for us,” he told a business forum, saying areas that needed change include government institutions, the household registration system and environment protection standards. “If not, even if our absolute economic size gets bigger, our economy, our growth standards, will still be at the mid- to low-end.”

Real estate not a pillar sector: economic planner – Xinhua | English.news.cn Zhu Zhixin, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, made the remark Sunday in response to the widespread misunderstanding of the importance of the housing market. He was speaking at the ongoing China Development Forum held in Beijing. Instead, the central government considers the construction industry as a pillar one, he said.

Gansu City Moves Mountains in Search of Transformation –Caixin- Just north of the arid western city of Lanzhou, an army of excavators is flattening mountains truckload by truckload, obscuring the city’s burgeoning skyline with clouds of yellow dust. They are making way for a vast project that aims to transform this narrow gateway to Xinjiang and Tibet into a broad boomtown and suck water from a hinterland with little to spare. This gritty city of 3.6 million people has been known for some of the worst pollution in all of China. Now, the air is getting even grimier as investment from the coast is fueling development in an area almost twice the size of Manhattan that will be home to a million new residents. And that’s just one small part of the plan.

Joy CEO Says China Coal Miner Demand to Gain as Power Use Rises – BloombergJoy also bought a company from ERA’s founders, sorts been arguing that it to will have issues// The company has “strongly positioned” itself to benefit from a rebound in coal demand through its 2012 acquisition of International Mining Machinery in China, Rayle said. While the global coal market has begun to rebound from 2012, miners will delay capital spending until later in the year, he said Sutherlin said he is trying to increase the amount of revenue IMM captures from servicing and maintenance after the original machine sale.

Fiscal caution as focus put on budget balance[1]|chinadaily.com.cn Despite rapid revenue growth, the budget deficit will, as planned, reach 1.2 trillion yuan ($193.2 billion) in 2013. This marks a 50 percent increase from the previous year. Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli, addressing the China Development Forum, said the key was to spend wisely and not just let the government expand its share of the national coffers.

楼继伟：将对地方债务开正道堵歪门_经济频道_财新网interesting comments from Lou Jiwei at China Development Forum// 在分析目前中国赤字规模较大的原因时，楼继伟称一是为了应对外部环境一些不利冲击，二是国内财政支出增长非常快，而财政收入不太可能出现超规模的增长. full text of his remarks here, full text of his Q&A here

Dealer cheating causes havoc at Volvo’s China unit | Reuters Swedish auto maker Volvo has uncovered widespread cheating by its car dealers in China, where retailers inflated sales to win cash rebates from the company for hitting volume targets.An investigation by the struggling, Chinese-owned car maker uncovered thousands of fake sales booked in 2011 — but also an under-reporting of sales in 2012 to make the books balance. That meant it actually performed better last year than it had thought, according to a senior Volvo executive.

POLITICS AND LAW

人民日报-民生改善是梦想的最好诠释 ——五论同心共筑中国梦 本报评论员fifth in a series of page 1 people’s daily commentaries about the china dream…//千百年来，中国老百姓企盼的就是“过上好日子”。能够让人们过上好日子的社会，必定是一个学有所教、劳有所得、病有所医、老有所养、住有所居的社会。我们深知，这样的中国梦，体量之大，涉及１３亿人；范围之广，涵盖百姓生活的方方面面。这决定了圆梦之途绝不轻松，既需要尽力而为、量力而行、循序渐进，更需要克勤克俭、辛勤劳动，在推动经济发展中，不断满足民生之需、不断增进民生福祉。 中国梦不是空中楼阁。梦想成真，民生改善是最好诠释。将国家的发展落脚在所有人的共同发展上，将梦想的力量凝聚在共同富裕的旗帜下，未来中国定能以稳健有力的步伐，在民族复兴梦想的道路上踏实前行。

【舒立观察】证券监管如何继往开来_杂志频道_财新网Hu Shuli’s editorial this week about Xiao Gang taking over as head of CSRC, she seems be fairly confident he will continue to push on reforms// 肖钢主席行事低调，此前的职业生涯均在央行和商业银行度过，外界尚难以知晓其对证券市场的见解。但观其既往，肖钢推进改革，尊重市场，警惕风险,具国际视野。如果他能将此风格和思路引入新职，证监改革就不会半途而废；具体改革路径和策略或有不同，但监管哲学应一以贯之。在3月17日的证监会人事交接会议上，肖钢亦表示将保持政策的连续性，这是一个好的开端。

Author of Deng’s biography awarded on China studies – Xinhua | English.news.cn Ezra Vogel, author of “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China,” was honored on Saturday for his outstanding contribution in the studies of China together with two other renowned researchers. In a prerecorded audio clip, Vogel, 82, said that he was “deeply moved to be recognized in China as one who has seriously endeavored to interpret China to the West and to enter into the internal discussion within China as scholars here make an effort to understand the Deng era and how it transformed China.”

公务员隐性福利调查：补助卫生巾 节假日都发钱_新闻_腾讯网a look at the “hidden” benefits civil servants receive..no wonder so many people vying for spots// 省社会科学院研究员董泓扬认为，“考公务员热”带来的不是人民公仆，而是怀着升官发财美梦的一个个利益追逐者，很多人报考公务员带有很强的目的性，有的人可能已经准备好进到公务员系统就开始“寻租”了。这是非常令人担忧的。

人民日报-当官即不许发财（人民论坛） 辛士红People’s daily: Officials are not allowed to get rich// 拒腐防变，须走正道。当社会生活越来越丰富，党员干部面临的诱惑也越来越多，消极腐败的危险更加突出地摆在面前。跨过金钱关、用好手中权，首先就要坚定理想信念，划出公私分明的界限，培养为民服务的情怀，不断筑牢思想防线。当然，遏制一些人发财的欲望，仅靠自律还不够，关键是加强对权力的制约和监督。通过完善“手莫伸，伸手必被捉”的机制，打造牢牢关住权力的笼子，给权力涂上防腐剂，才能真正让干部拒腐蚀、永不沾。

What Xi Jinping’s visit to Tanzania means : Analysis-africareview.com But Dr Benson Bana, head of the department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Dar es Salaam, said: “Our President should find a way of telling his counterpart what Tanzanians want from China. They should invest more in this country, rather than making us a ready market for their products.” China’s industries need raw materials and markets and this is what the new leader must strive to provide, analysts say, but not at the expense of Tanzania–which needs Chinese products, but not when quality is not guaranteed. Moreover, they should help Tanzania construct its own industries to produce finished goods,” according to Dr Bana.

Will China and Russia’s New ‘Strategic Partnership’ Work? | Via Meadia So for now, VM maintains that this is a big old nothingburger of an event. China and Russia will continue to cooperate and vote together against Western initiatives when it suits them, all the while suspiciously eyeing each other for evidence of intrigue. Though it’s always dangerous to draw conclusions based on past trends, we see no solid evidence that anything has changed in the well-established dynamic between these two countries.

Chinese, Russian presidents push for tourism cooperation – Xinhua | English.news.cn The China-Russia Tourism Year program, which began last year with the Year of Russian Tourism in China, aims to foster tourism ties and cultural exchanges between the two countries. It is the third theme year following the China-Russia National Year and the China-Russia Year of Language held in recent years in the two countries. Putin said those events have greatly deepened mutual understanding and trust between the two peoples and have consolidated the social basis of bilateral relations.

Xi’s First State Trip Yields ‘Breakthrough’ Oil Deals With Putin – Bloomberg China agreed to double oil supplies and supported construction of a natural gas pipeline from Russia under “breakthrough” agreements during President Xi Jinping’s first state trip abroad. OAO Rosneft, the world’s biggest traded oil producer by output, will borrow $2 billion from China Development Bank Corp., backed by 25 years of oil supplies, under accords signed yesterday in the Kremlin. The Russian company also offered China National Petroleum Corp. access to Arctic resources, and OAO Gazprom said it plans to conclude a 30-year gas-supply contract to China by year-end.

Xi Heads for African Tour as Policy Makers Question China’s Role – Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping will set out plans for mining and infrastructure development on a trip to Africa this week, as China seeks to reassure leaders on the continent who have voiced unease about its trade relations. During his eight-day trip Xi, 59, will stop in Tanzania, Congo Republic and South Africa, where he plans to sign business cooperation deals and attend a summit of BRICS nations. Trade between Africa and China doubled since 2007 to more than $200 billion and Chinese investment stands at $20 billion, according to Standard Bank Group Ltd. (SBK), Africa’s biggest lender.

Jing Daily: Exception, Home-Grown Chinese Fashion Brand, Has Its “Jason Wu Moment” Initially, Weibo users speculated that the bag was by Italian luxury brand Tod’s, but others were quick to identify the brand of the purse — as well as Peng’s jacket — as Guangzhou’s Exception (Exception de Mixmind). After being confirmed by an Exception PR rep, the discovery immediately set off a firestorm of interest in the brand on Sina Weibo.

Peng Liyuan: the ‘Kate Middleton’ effect of China’s new first lady – Telegraph “In her role as first lady on this visit abroad, Peng Liyuan is exhibiting China’s soft power,” Wang Fan, head of the Institute of International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University, told the newspaper. The footage of her in Moscow quickly caused something akin to the “Kate Middleton effect”, with copies of her coat instantly appearing on Taobao, an online shopping site, for 499 yuan (£53) – and advertised as “in the same style as the first lady’s”. “Her shoes are really classic, and who designed her bag?” wrote another user on Weibo. In fact, the black leather clutch she carried was made to order by a Chinese firm in the southwestern city of Chengdu.

Top China college in focus with ties to army’s cyber-spying unit | Reuters Several papers on computer network security and intrusion detection, easily accessed on the Internet, were co-authored by researchers at PLA Unit 61398, allegedly an operational unit actively engaged in cyber-espionage, and faculty at Shanghai Jiaotong University, a centre of academic excellence with ties to some of the world’s top universities and attended by the country’s political and business elite.

China to attend major U.S.-hosted naval exercises, but role limited | Reuters U.S. law prohibits the Pentagon from any military contacts with the PLA if it could “create a national security risk due to an inappropriate exposure” to activities including joint combat operations. There is an exemption for operations or exercises related to search and rescue and humanitarian relief, and China participated with the United States last year in a counter-piracy drill.

NASA Shuts Down Database During Security Inquiry – NYTimes.com NASA announced the security procedures this week, after the F.B.I. arrested a Chinese citizen at Dulles International Airport in Virginia who had boarded a plane to Beijing. The man, Bo Jiang, had been working as a contractor at NASA’s Langley Research Center in southern Virginia. According to an affidavit filed on Monday, Mr. Jiang is being charged with making false statements to federal agents — failing to disclose that he was carrying a laptop, hard drive and SIM card that were discovered after a search of his belongings.

Iceland Baffled by Chinese Plan for Golf Resort – NYTimes.com“ It never seemed a very convincing business plan,” said Iceland’s interior minister, Ogmundur Jonasson, who last year rejected a request that Mr. Huang be exempted from Icelandic laws that restrict foreign ownership of land. “I put many questions and got no answers,” the minister added. Prodded by diplomats from the United States and other countries to take a hard look at Mr. Huang’s intentions, Mr. Jonasson questioned what might lie behind China’s curious interest in Grimsstadir. “One has to look at this from a geopolitical perspective and ask about motivations,” Mr. Jonasson said.

Lawyer: Accused defense contractor, woman in love – Yahoo! News Bervar said he spoke to the girlfriend, who hasn’t been named by authorities. Officials say she’s living in the U.S. on a student visa. The woman told Bervar agents went to her home on March 15 and seized computers but have since returned one computer and another laptop. She hasn’t been arrested.

HONG KONG, MACAO AND TAIWAN

China magazine spikes Taiwan issue, fires staff – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun The publisher of a Chinese monthly history magazine spiked an entire issue shortly before it went to print because authorities were unhappy with its focus: the democratization of Taiwan. It also fired much of its staff. Informed sources told The Asahi Shimbun that the majority of the 20 or so editorial staff at Kan Lishi (Eye on History), including the editor in chief, were required to submit resignations.

TECH AND MEDIA

China Mobile May Restructure Fetion to Fight back Weixin amid Slower Business -Caijing The Chinese mobile operator is keen on developing Fetion, which is close to over-the-top (OTT) services like Weixin, into a most important integrated telecommunication product, according to a leaked document on a recent meeting held in China Mobile headquarter. The document shows that the company is planning to make every China Mobile client a Fetion user through integrations with the company’s other products, as well as contact lists and expand user base by introducing favorable packages.

Global telecoms giant ZTE sees gold in Chinese roots | Reuters “The China market is like a gold mine as telecom operators are cash-rich,” David Dai Shu, a spokesman for ZTE, told Reuters. “It is a top priority for us by country.” China’s three mobile operators plan to spend a combined 345 billion yuan ($56 billion) this year on network expansion. That includes investment in 4G, which promises rapid data downloads for millions of mobile users holding Apple Inc’s iPhones or Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy phones. Hong Kong-listed China Mobile, the world’s top carrier with 715 million subscribers, is forking out 41.7 billion yuan from its total spending of 190.2 billion yuan for this year to build 200,000 4G base stations covering more than 100 cities

Board defends governance at Huawei–AFR Mr Lord revealed the random check of the secret share register from a sealed room in Shenzhen to refute a study that suggests Huawei is more likely to be covering up corporate governance inadequacies than involved in Chinese cyber security activities. The research, by an Australian academic, suggests that Huawei has been caught out in its offshore expansion by efforts to hide its true dividend payout ratio to employee shareholders and its part ownership by non-employee shareholders. It concludes that it is the company’s efforts to implement opaque Chinese corporate governance practices that explain its difficulty persuading some western authorities of its bona fides rather than the commonly claimed fear that it is controlled by the Chinese ­military.

SOCIETY, ART, SPORTS, CULTURE AND HISTORY

For One World War II Vet, Unfinished Business in China – Christopher Magoon – The Atlantic So says Robert Willett, a Korean War and World War II veteran who is still waiting for the U.S. government to recover the wreckage of his cousin’s plane, CNAC #60. The plane disappeared over the mountains near the China-Burma border in the early stages of World War II. After 30 years of research and three treacherous treks, CNAC #60 has been found. The wreckage sits at 25°38’59″N 100°05’30″E, on the western flank of the Cang Shan mountain range, outside the city of Dali in Yunnan province. But the remains of Mr. Willett’s cousin are still missing; and Willett, now 86, is getting impatient.

Shanghai car plate auction hits new highs |Hot Issues |chinadaily.com.cnanother scarce resource whose prices popped by too many people competing for it and government intervention// The cost of a car license plate hit a record high at an auction in Shanghai on Saturday, skyrocketing to more than 90,000 yuan ($14,480), despite municipal government efforts at regulating the market. The Shanghai government said that the price of a secondhand car plate should not exceed the auction price of new car plates, nine days before March’s car plate auction on Saturday, blaming the rising price of secondhand plates for pushing up the new prices. That move, which took effect on Saturday, was one of four new measures to fight against speculation and curb the surging price of plates.

Hurting at home, China’s Li Ning courts U.S. glitz | Reuters The Chinese firm is paying top dollar for an elite athlete just as Nike and other established sportswear brands are scaling back on big-name endorsements because of disappointing returns. A decade ago, Nike reportedly paid Wade’s superstar teammate Lebron James more than $90 million for a 7-year contract, but high-potential rookie players now command shoe contracts worth just $1-$2 million a year, Powell said. James is the world’s fourth highest-paid athlete with endorsements bringing in $40 million a year, according to a Forbes ranking as of June 2012. Wade ranked 35th, with $12 million a year in endorsements. “It (the Wade deal) has a positive effect in boosting Li Ning’s image … but it doesn’t necessarily generate more sales,” said Elyse Wang, an analyst at Haitong International Research in Shenzhen. “The deal is not justified as for sure it’s offering a very high price.”

“毒大米”事件引发湖南米厂停工潮 新华社——经济参考网“poison rice incidents” have led to surge in closures of rice mills in Hunan// 全国最大的水稻主产区湖南省正遭受“毒大米”事件影响。《经济参考报》记者近日调查了解到，受不久前关于湖南上万吨大米重金属镉含量超标的事件影响，湖南省米厂出现“停工潮”，在湖南最大的米市“兰溪米市”，当地企业反映已有70%的米厂停工。对于“毒大米”事件，湖南方面已经成立了调查组，但记者多次联系后均未获知调查结果。当地种粮农民和粮食企业担心，如果不能即时全面公布“毒大米”事件的真相，后期湖南粮食流通企业也将遭受重创，而部分农民可能因稻谷销路不好和价格下跌而弃种水稻

China Officials Endorsing Mainland Baby Formula in Attempts to Revive Buyer Confidence-Caijing Chinese officials have repeatedly claimed that infant formula products in the country are safe following tighter regulations in recent years in the market, in a bid to revive the shattered industry which was hit by a string of chemical-tainted milk scandals. In the latest effort, a vice chairman of China Dairy Industry Association told the state-run People’s Daily that results of 11 sampling tests in 2012 found no problems respecting quality in major brands of infant formula products.

FOOD AND TRAVEL

Beer in Beijing: Jing A to open craft brewery in The Big Smoke | Beijing Boyce The Big Smoke will soon be home to a brewery called Jing A by Kristian Li and Alex Acker. The pair will take over the first two rooms in that long hallway of The Big Smoke, which is on Xingfucun Middle Road, just north of Workers Gynasium. The project makes sense given that the recently closed Saddle Cantina, which had ownership links to The Big Smoke, contained a small brewery for years

BEIJING

Oil pollutes city’s best river – CHINA – BEIJING – Globaltimes.cn Beijing water authorities are trying to discover the source of an oil slick which has polluted the Kunyu River in Haidian district. Local residents said the oil has contaminated the water for several days, despite attempts to disperse it. Kunyu River is about 10 kilometers long, and connects Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace to several downstream lakes such as the one in Yuyuantan Park in Haidian district. The area alongside the river has been designated as a first-level water protection zone since 1985.

China Goes Global: The Partial Power: David Shambaugh: Amazon In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book that many have been waiting for–a sweeping account of China’s growing prominence on the international stage. Thirty years ago, China’s role in global affairs beyond its immediate East Asian periphery was decidedly minor and it had little geostrategic power. Today however, China’s expanding economic power has allowed it to extend its reach virtually everywhere–from mineral mines in Africa, to currency markets in the West, to oilfields in the Middle East, to agribusiness in Latin America, to the factories of East Asia. Shambaugh offers an enlightening look into the manifestations of China’s global presence: its extensive commercial footprint, its growing military power, its increasing cultural influence or “soft power,” its diplomatic activity, and its new prominence in global governance institutions.

Forensic Investigator-Fortune 500 Company at Hays in Beijing – Job | LinkedIn A Fortune 500 Company is now hiring a Forensic Investigator to join their headquarter in Beijing.The Forensic Investigator will support the senior forensic investigator with domestic and international investigations by analysing problem, studying documents, conducting research and determining the chain of activities, and then carrying out compliance investigations by checking and evaluating business processes and projects in terms of risk, correctness, economic feasibility and quality, as well as by conducting interviews and preparing interim reports.

Job Offer – Director of Communications–American Chamber of Commerce Beijing Management of communications team – manage a staff of six professionals on the communications team, including a digital communications manager, magazine editor, two designers, media relations manager, and sponsorship manager. Maintain close communications with colleagues in the operations (responsible for organizing events, as well as support for forums and committees), government relations, and membership departments, to ensure that chamber publications reflect the breadth of the organization’s programs and activities.